Ember has just accidentally burned her parents to death after finding out that she's a Flame. Now transported to an academy in the middle of no-freaking-where, she has people trying to take her power, and she ends up falling for a Shard, which is forbidden. What could possibly go wrong?

Pandora Paige Alexander is the main focus of what the government has cleverly named the P. P. A. Project. The project is a series of government run facilities, tests and inspections to learn and replicate a rare condition Pandora has lived with for more than 90 years and yet still has the face of a 17 year old. But what Pandora didn't expect after all these years of tests and questions is that there is more to her than simply a rare genetic condition but the key between this world and another.